Thinking Migration No 3, 2018
This publication comes under a new dress: for the first time, in fact, this is on-line. In doing so, we hope to reach out to a larger number of people and to make available the long and rich tradition of the teaching of the Catholic Church, in terms of theological reflection, policies, practices, and pastoral care to migrants and refugees, in a way possible only through cyber space.
This issue of Thinking Migration comes into existence in the week the Catholic Church in Australia marks the 104th World Day of Migrants and Refugees. In His message for the occasion, Pope Francis says that:
“Every stranger who knocks at our door is an opportunity for an encounter with Jesus Christ, w ho identifies with the welcomed and rejected strangers of every age”. (Matthew 25:35 - 43).
The Holy Father qualifies this encounter with for action verbs: “Welcoming, protecting, promoting and integrating migrants and refugees”. The global political debate demonstrates, once again, that migration is looked upon not as an opportunity for an encounter, but rather, from the point of view of interest. Everyone seems to have some interest in migration: States, politicians, employers, migration agents and lawyers; perhaps it is less considered from the point of view of migrants and refugees.
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